Sonos continues to clean up as the company recovers from the blows it suffered following a disastrous mobile app redesign last year. Just one day after CEO Patrick Spence left the company, chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. He will act as an advisor to interim CEO Tom Conrad during the leadership transition before fully exiting Sonos.
According The edgeConrad informed Sonos employees discussed the latest leadership change in a company-wide email today. The CPO role is becoming redundant and the Sonos product team will report directly to Conrad for the time being.
A day after Bouvat-Merlin was fired, The edge reported that the commercial director, Deirdre Findlay, was also leaving the company. However, an internal email from Conrad clarified that Findlay does not yet have a timetable for his departure and that his reasons for leaving Sonos are not related to recent leadership changes.
Sonos has been in a tailspin since releasing a mobile app update in May that was heavily buggy and missing key features. The company's financial results plummeted and it laid off about 100 employees in August. Sonos has made several efforts to keep customers aware of its plans to recover from the app's launch, and the decision to replace senior management appears to be the latest step in regaining public trust in the business.
Update, January 15, 2025, 4:50 pm ET: This story has been updated to include details that Sonos' chief commercial officer has also left the company.
